What I find troubling but not surprising is that Trump was too cheap to spring for anything but fast food for his all-American guests.
And, you know what they say: you are what you eat, and garbage in, garbage out. And we all know Trump's diet of choice consists largely of junk food...
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And don't fail to point out that our ever-thoughtful Chomper-in-Chief served covfefe at the end of the "meal," of course!
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As usual, John McWhorter got it right about the larger significance of Trump's "lexically impoverished" writing:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/what-trumps-typos-reveal/579919/
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No one knows whoppers better, or shrieks louder about 'berder security.
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Kirsten Gillibrand sounded like Tracy Flick from the movie Election. A high school student is more engaging asking for votes. She just does not have a clue as to how clueless she presented herself on a national stage.
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Luckily, covfefe capitalized Fast Food. Since, that's what is important.
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I still want to know how this guy was admitted to, and managed to graduate from, Penn. Something ain't right.
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He has a degenerative condition that's accelerating before our eyes. Wasn't apparent then.
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I'm all for mocking Trump's mistakes, but...
"...and he welcomed the players with a overflowing order of fast food"
So he doesn't know how to spell.
Big deal. He doesn't know how to negotiate nor run a country either.
You get what you elect and his base is unwavering so the Dems will certainly find a way to lose in 2020.
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It all makes sense when you realize that "hamberders" are just small "hamburgers", in fact they are precisely 33.3% of the size of a "hamburger" - that's how 300 hamburgers = 1,000 hamberders. Simple.
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Ugh, can we please all see these for what they are? The "typos" are simply another distraction method. We are now several distractions DEEP here. A sports team is a level 1 distraction, a sports team's celebratory dinner is level 2 distraction, feeding a sports team McDonalds is a level 3 distraction, a typo in the tweet about how great it is to feed a sports team fast food is a 4th level distraction (at minimum). We are now not even talking about the event at hand, or anything else relevant, did you notice? Are you with me?
It's obvious to anyone with advertising experience to see this meal was provided by McDonalds. Donald didn't pay for one cent of that, give me a break.
America has become a full-time reality TV show.
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@STOPTHESNIDENESS
Exactly.
I hope SETH MEYERS and his writers READ the the COMMENT you wrote so eloquently.
Kudos!
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(Sorry about my own failure to delete the second "the" is my sentence. I guess I need a proof-reader, too)
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Donald Trump's "House of Carbs."
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@B (and others!)
Dyslexia does NOT disqualify someone from successfully and ethically serving as POTUS or most other jobs. Nor does a disability that interferes with the act of reading (with one's eyes) itself, as the likes super-lawyer David Boies; businessman Charles Schwab; The Honorable Justice Richard H. Bernstein (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_H._Bernstein) and countless others would tell you, if you bothered to ask. To suggest otherwise is an act of pernicious bigotry, plane and simple.
Trump's problem isn't that he may have dyslexia. The problem with Trump, among other things, is his poor work ethic, his resistance to information that doesn't fit his self-concept or will to power or love of Russia, his refusal to accept professional assistance or proper and effective reasonable accommodations (such as a human or computer-based reader to voice what's written so he can hear what's written), his poor impulse control and anger management, his lack of creativity and poor analytical skills, his weak ego and pathological narcissism and capacity to be truthful, his compromised and corrupt morality, and his carelessness.
A specific learning disability, like dyslexia, is not to blame and does not disqualify an otherwise intelligent, hardworking, ethical, collaborative, and non-utterly selfish person from public service at the highest levels. Trumps's astoundingly poor character is the problem, not how well he spells.
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@STOPTHESNIDENESS, Trump is sloppy and lazy along with many more defects of character.
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@STOPTHESNIDENESS
Trump's carelessness is in itself a serious defect in a leader, as well as a sign of entitlement in that he doesn't feel he should be subject to the standards of others. Whatever he does is the greatest, the best. He just invented a new way to spell "hamburgers." Someone call Merriam-Webster.
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I’m not sure if Trump really can’t spell, or if he just makes random typos and then doesn’t bother checking his writing because hey, he has the greatest brain. If it’s the former, then we can also add borderline illiteracy into the bargain because the man is so obviously under-read and incapable of stringing together a grammatically correct sentence. Listening to him speak for any length of time is akin to a front-row seat - the best seat, the most beautiful seat - to the butchering of the English language.
Before anyone jumps in and says that a lot of people are bad spellers, allow me to say that this is true and I know a few of them. But they’re still intelligent, mannerly, decent people who speak in full, understandable sentences and don’t ramble like a mental patient. Trump is not intelligent, mannerly, or decent and, at the end of the day, the fact still remains that, if you’re the President of the United States, you should be able to spell “hamburger”, as well as pretty much everything else in the English lexicon.
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Trump, in and of himself, is fodder for late night humor. Those late night guys have it so easy.
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Oh I just laughed more than I have in much too long over Stephen’s tweet. Keep it coming!!
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It was the biggest order of hamberders ever made. It is a big beautiful, wonderful order of hamberders. No other president in 8 years has ordered as many hamberders as Trump has in 2 years.
There were more hamberders in his office than were ever in Obama's. More hamberders were eaten at his inauguration than at any inauguration before.
I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamberder today.
I hope he saved his receipt so he can take this off his taxes. Oh wait we will never know since he refuses to release his taxes.
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I'm convinced that Trump has dyslexia. He exhibits so many signs of it--misspellings, weird grammatical constructions, his inability to read anything more than a page long (including his speeches--remember how often he "goes off-script"). I suspect that either Trump hid his reading issues from his dad, or dad forced him to hide them. And so we pay the price not just with "hamberders," but also with hundreds of illiterate screeds delivered verbally and via Twitter and national policies created and implemented without benefit of knowledge that could be gained from reading.
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@B Doesn’t the man have someone within his voice’s reach that could proofread? It’s not like his tweets are confidential.
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Not to mention symptoms of Attention Deficit Disorder.
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@B - So how on earth did he manage to get into, and graduate from, Penn? Something ain't right.
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A big, fat nothing berder....?
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Can I get a hamberder and a covfefe to go, please? Thanks.
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@Aelwyd
And as if he actually ordered or paid for them himself. Little lies betray the congential liar.
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@eddie p
One is tempted to think that President Trump must actually believe that the truth is a precious commodity. So precious, in fact, that he never uses it ...
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How come nobody satirizes Mitch McConnell? Why does he get a free pass? Oh, I guess becauses Trump is so much funnier and gets us more clicks.
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@ S North With Forrest Trump as president Late night talk shows do not need any writers. The scofflaw - in - chief does it for them day after day.
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Hamberders -- there's a red line under it as I type it ....
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I have come to the conclusion that Trump's typos are his way of getting attention. He seems to be behaving like a child who craves attention but isn't getting enough to satisfy his need. It appears that he thinks, in the same way a needy child does, that any attention is good attention, even if it is for doing something wrong.
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Watching these guys can often take the sting out of the Trump era, but this is ridiculous. It was a typo. Don't any of these guys, and Mr. Russonello, ever miss a typo? I think they're over the line here.
Now if they suggested that Muller is investigating Trump's fitness for office because he doesn't know how to backspace on his smartphone, that might be more to the point.
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@alocksley Unless Bonespurs has a different keypad than everyone else, considering the "D" key is not next to the "G" , the "E" key is not adjacent to the "U" , and the "1" key is not next to the "3" those ain't typos (except maybe for hitting the "0" one too many times). And I would guess that he doesn't have the capacity to figure out swipe typing so that doesn't explain it either.
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@alocksley - A typo??? Hamberders vs. Hamburgers is not a typo. He got three letters wrong. In my line of work a typo is one letter missing or one wrong letter typed.
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@susan - It's actually only one letter off. Note that the b and h keys are adjacent to each other. That should have been hamherders, more conventionally referred to as swineherds. I have no idea why he wanted 1000 of them at the White House, however.
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